Adproxy.exe running in the background KILL IT!

When my computer is running terribly slow and I pull up the task manager. The lovely ADPROXY.EXE is taking up all my CPU. And I don't even have lightroom opened. I end up having to kill the process which I know is bad. This is a REAL pain. How can I disable this feature so it stops running in the background till I want it. I have already disabled the adobe photo downloader but it doesn't seem to stop it. I can import my own pictures when I want to. I don't need an automation to do it. Any help would be MUCH appreciated!

Go to Start>Run>Type in Msconfig, hit OK. When dialog box opens click on start tab and uncheck adproxy. Then do a re-start. When box on screen opens up check don't show this box on startup.
There's possibly a lot of stuff in the startup box that you can uncheck that you don't need running all the time. That helps PC operations greatly.

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HT201365 On this new ios7 update how do I kill apps running in the background now? I used to be able to double tap the home button

On this new ios7 update how do I kill apps running in the background now? I used to be able to double tap the home button

Double tap the home button. Slide the preview window upward. You can do 2 at a time.
It's rarely useful or necessary to do this. Very few apps actually "run in the background" (such as audio streaming and navigation apps). The vast majority are frozen and consume no resources. The iOS manages memory for you to optimize running apps.
iOS: Understanding multitasking
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SAFARI: running in the background:

When I access a website there is an automatic refresh of the content. When I open a different webpage with Safari, then the automatic refresh on the first page stopps! How can I have a webpage be refreshed in background?
Does Safari download content when it is minimized / not visible?
When I go back to the first page, then the automatic refresh is not there any more. The function has been de-activated by Safari on Ipad. (On a Firefox on windows there is no such problem). How can I get the same webpage behaviour than before. (I know that reloading the page does the job. But this should be automatic and not from the user)

The ipad like a lot of other mobile devices use a type of multitasking that differs from multitasking you would find on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. Apple chooses to put most background apps on iOS devices in a suspended mode which allows the application to be paused in the background and then respond quickly when brought to the foreground. Some application functions can continue to run in the background.
Features that are allowed to run in the background are music, location services, airplay, VoIP, push notifications, but it is still up to the developers to make use of this functionality.
I don't believe Safari is one of the applications that will continue to run in the background.
Why does Apple choose to do this? Short answer: Battery life and performance. If app developers were allowed to choose whether or not to have their application to run in the background, bad programmers would quickly kill the performance and battery on the iOS device.
Some devices such as andriod phones and the blackberry playbook allow broader multi-tasking. The trade off? Andriod phones have task killers, which forces the user to manage their performance and battery life. The playbook comes shipped with a default of using suspended multi-tasking on vs. full multi-tasking - since full multi-tasking would again affect performance and battery life.
I agree it would be nice if webpages continued to load if Safari is in the background, and maybe this will be added / enabled in the future. I think Apples design provides a better user experience and still allows most of the functions to run in the background that need to. (I don't need a movie to play in the background or game).
My guess would be Safari doesn't allow background use right not because of issues like auto-refresh pages, which again would affect performance and battery.

Apps running in the background

It seems to be if you have the app linked to a watch complication or you have it on your glances page, then those apps loads much faster. I figure they are always running so the data can be displayed on the watch face or quickly at a glance.
So if you have every possible app on your glances page, then your battery life would drain much faster than if you have fewer apps.
I only have 3-4 apps on my glances page and I can easily get 20 hours of battery life, and this includes a 1 hour workout using GPS and HR monitoring.

Tbh, the biggest battery drain is your email push settings. I'd look at those before worrying about terminating background apps.
You can see everything that's running on your phone by using a "process monitor" app. I use one called "iStat". Unfortunately, iStat can only show you what's running, it can;t actually kill anything. It will definitely tell you which of the 1st party programs (browser, email, ipod) are running in the background.
If you actually want to kill one of these, the procedure is:
Open the app in question (e.g. launch the ipod app)
Hold the power/sleep button until the red slider appears.
Hold the sleep button for around 6 seconds (eventually the red slider will disappear and you will be returned to the home screen).
Whichever app was running (e.g. ipod) will now be forced to close.
** note: To close safari, you can simply close all the "tabs" down, and then exit. If you close safari when there are no tabs in use, it will completely shut down.

Too much stuff running in the background

I have a Casio Commando Gz'One. I installed an App called Advanced Task Killer to be able to turn unnecessary things off that are constantly running the background. What I have noticed is even right after I run Advanced Task Killer, there is A LOT of stuff that keeps turning itself back on. How can I permanently turn off apps/stuff that I rarely if ever use?
As an example of Apps/stuff that constantly is on and turning itself back on in the background........My Verizon Mobile, Gallery, Camera, Desk Cradle, Mobile IM, Skype Mobile, Slacker, City ID, etc etc etc.
I'd prefer to not have all this stuff constantly running in the background and using up memory. I notice that when I don't run Advanced Task Killer for a while my phone responds slower and slower and the longer I leave things be, my available memory available goes down......
How do I do this?

Thanks, Ann, that's a great article, very helpful to a veteran Windows user like me, who isn't used to RAM being managed this way by the OS.
I just did a quick check on my Samsung Stratosphere using Menu > Applications > Memory usage, then tapping Running. There's a lot of stuff running, and I do wonder about some of it. Slacker Radio, for instance, which I've never used and don't intend to use, has been running for 24 hours and is using 2.3 MB of memory. When I press and hold it, I get a screen informing me that it was started by an application called Tap to stop, and a warning, "Service started by application. Stopping service may cause application to fail." If I throw caution to the winds and tap Stop anyway, I get another message, "Stop this system service? Some features of your phone may stop working correctly until you turn it off and then on again," at which point I grab caution back from the winds and hit Cancel.
So, granted that I should just leave things alone and "let Android be Android," as the writer of the article you linked to says, I'm still curious. What the heck is the application called "Tap to stop"? I don't see it anywhere. What feature of my phone would fail if I forced Slacker Radio to stop?
Thanks again for the article. It's fun to learn about a new OS.

LabVIEW closes while VI's are still running in the background

I have created a large application that is split between VB 6 and LV 6.1. The LabVIEW portion runs in the background, except that the VB portion can request that a LabVIEW user interface be presented on demand. Any time after this LabVIEW user interface has been opened and closed, opening and closing another application (or even just hiding a top-level window in another application) will cause LabVIEW to close, taking my background processing with it.
If the LabVIEW code is running as source code, LabVIEW prompts me before closing. However, when the LabVIEW code is running as an executable (.exe), the executable closes without prompting in this circumstance.
The scenario can be reproduced with a standard LabVIEW sample program. Proceed as follows:
1) Open VBToLV.vbp (the example program distributed with LabVIEW 6.1).
2) Start the VB program running.
3) Press the Launch LabVIEW button on the user interface of the VB program.
4) Enter an expression in the text box provided.
5) Select Display VI Front Panel.
6) Press the Run VI button.
7) Close the VI front panel by clicking its "X" button.
8) Open any handy application, such as Windows Explorer or Notepad.
9) Close this most-recently-opened program.
10) The LabVIEW Exit screen appears.
11) Exit LabVIEW.
12) Press the Run VI button.
13) An error occurs because LabVIEW has closed.
If the LabVIEW code had been built into an executable and called accordingly, there would have been no LabVIEW exit screen. The executable would have just exited silently.
This is not the way a COM server is supposed to behave. The VB program is still holding a valid reference to the server and it should remain open.
It appears that LabVIEW is monitoring the total number of top-level windows that are open. I suppose that this is how LabVIEW figures out when its own FP windows have been closed. In this case, it doesn't notice that all of its windows have been closed until some other window closes.
I have a work-around, but it's ugly.
Ron Martin
Balance Technology Inc.

Hi,
Perhaps you use references to windows in LabVIEW. If you get those
references with a full path (e.g. c:\code\subvis\vi1.vi), this will work
while in LabVIEW environment. But when an application is build, this will
fail, because the vi is no longer there. Try using the name in a string
instead (the OpenVIReference is polymorphic) with only the name of the vi in
it (e.g. vi1.vi).
There are some other isues that change when building an application. Most of
them are paths that change, and references that fail to open because of
them.
Regards,
Wiebe.
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> I have created a large application that is split between VB 6 and LV
> 6.1. The LabVIEW portion runs in the background, except that the VB
> portion can request that a LabVIEW user interface be presented on
> demand. Any time after this LabVIEW user interface has been opened
> and closed, opening and closing another application (or even just
> hiding a top-level window in another application) will cause LabVIEW
> to close, taking my background processing with it.
>
> If the LabVIEW code is running as source code, LabVIEW prompts me
> before closing. However, when the LabVIEW code is running as an
> executable (.exe), the executable closes without prompting in this
> circumstance.
>
> The scenario can be reproduced with a standard LabVIEW sample program.
> Proceed as follows:
>
> 1) Open VBToLV.vbp (the example program distributed with LabVIEW 6.1).
> 2) Start the VB program running.
> 3) Press the Launch LabVIEW button on the user interface of the VB
> program.
> 4) Enter an expression in the text box provided.
> 5) Select Display VI Front Panel.
> 6) Press the Run VI button.
> 7) Close the VI front panel by clicking its "X" button.
> 8) Open any handy application, such as Windows Explorer or Notepad.
> 9) Close this most-recently-opened program.
> 10) The LabVIEW Exit screen appears.
> 11) Exit LabVIEW.
> 12) Press the Run VI button.
> 13) An error occurs because LabVIEW has closed.
>
> If the LabVIEW code had been built into an executable and called
> accordingly, there would have been no LabVIEW exit screen. The
> executable would have just exited silently.
>
> This is not the way a COM server is supposed to behave. The VB
> program is still holding a valid reference to the server and it should
> remain open.
>
> It appears that LabVIEW is monitoring the total number of top-level
> windows that are open. I suppose that this is how LabVIEW figures out
> when its own FP windows have been closed. In this case, it doesn't
> notice that all of its windows have been closed until some other
> window closes.
>
> I have a work-around, but it's ugly.
>
> Ron Martin
> Balance Technology Inc.

I've found 'Blackberry Device Manager' running in the background of my Mac? But its been deleted? How do I get rid?

I've just upgraded my MacBook Pro to a new Retina model, and while looking at the activity monitor I've noticed I still have an app running in the background that I thought had been deleted? Its the 'Blackberry Device Manager'? (See photo)
I've tried doing a spotlight search to try and find the program and delete? It's not in my apps list?
So I'm stuck and need some help? Thank you

That is a LaunchAgent. You will find it in the /Home/Library/LaunchAgents/ or /Library/LaunchAgents/ folder. To delete it you will have to first kill the process in Activity Monitor, then drag the file to the Trash and delete it. If the process reappears, then drag the item to the Trash and restart the computer, after which you can Empty the Trash.
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Pick one of the following methods:
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chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press RETURN.
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~/Library
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Read the names of the files in ABAP program that runs in the background

Hello,
I have a program that uploads information from file on application server.
What I can't figure still is how to get the <b>names </b>of the files that are in <b>specific directory</b>.
There is an other application that will post those files into this directory. I wont to get file names and file types from this directory and put it into an internal table.
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Thanks in advance,
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Hi,
one epossible solution that i have used is:
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Bernd

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are apps always running in the background or is just double pressing the home button just a fast way to switch to what u were doing like texting or phone or something?
cause ill notice i lot of icons down there lol and i hope not all those are running in the background cause i could see that killing the **** outa my battery -_-

... and here's an excellent thread explaining all the details:
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Try:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox.exe_always_open

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I'll try to give as many details as I can:
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